Posts Tagged ‘Racism’

This is some Orwellian dickery. Florida Republican Representative Adam Hasner hosted the “Free Speech Summit” over the weekend where a keynote speaker demanded that the Koran be outlawed and that religious freedom should not include Islam. Hasner also left the House chamber during a Muslim prayer on Monday.

Hasner invited Chair of the Parliamentary Party of The Netherlands Geert Wilders to speak at his “Free Speech Summit.” At the event, Wilders said that Islam was not a true religion, that the Koran calls for hatred and terrorism, and that free speech should not apply to Muslims. Here is the video:

Hasner also showed Wilders’ movie FITNA at the summit and applauded its Anti-Islam message.

Wilders is a devoted Catholic and apparently hasn’t read the portion of the Bible where God tells Aaron to slaughter every Canaanite in sight. The good people of Florida need to get rid of Hasner. He clearly hates the founding principles of this country.

At the tea party I attended, I saw little to no racist signs. One loon in the corner that was yammering about Obama’s birth certificate aside, the protest mostly focused on demonizing the Democratic leadership. I know that isn’t what the teabaggers wanted me to get out of it, but that is what it ultimately was.

Several days after the tea parties have ended, the California GOP is actually accusing tea baggers of racism. Who saw that coming? Anyway, the sad part about their cries is that the sign in question is simply not racist. Apparently, their just not as used to playing the race card as the Democrats are.

This is it.

Aside from being one of the only truly bipartisan signs, this is an odd message for any Republican to be delivering. But that’s the point. This sign was actually created by Ron Paul supporters. The GOP in California wants to back as far away from this sign as possible.

If Israel didn’t have a Star of David on their flag, then maybe this sign could be considered racist. But the first thought that went through my head upon seeing it was this: We give money and weapons to Israel who end up killing a whole bunch of Palestinians. That isn’t an opinion. That’s fact. The last scuffle between the two ended with several hundred dead Palestinians and two dead Israelis.

You could make a similar sign using hands from Hezbollah and Hamas dumping cash into a funnel with a Palestinian flag on it and ending with dead Israelis. That’s not racist. It’s fact. People have a right to be mad about shit like this.

The bottom line is that the word “racist” is thrown around far too much these days. If the California GOP deems this sign “racist” then that stops all real discussion about the policies that the sign is critiquing.

Janeane Garofalo needs to shut her organic free-trade pie-hole before she ends up as the token liberal douchebag on Fox News. During an appearance on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Garofalo pulled the racism card faster than George W. Bush repealed the Kyoto Protocol.

Olbermann started the segment by showing a video of a liberal blogger pwning a bunch of eager teabaggers with memories that can only be measured in nanoseconds. Here is the video:

After the video was played, Garofalo immediately pulled the race card, immediately delegitimizing any real criticism:

You know, there’s nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they’re not quite certain what he’s saying. It sounds right and then it doesn’t make sense. Which, let’s be very honest about what this is about. It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around that.

When will progressives realize that branding any dissenters with the racist label is a losing strategy? It doesn’t convince anyone that you’re right. It’s stupid, childish, and easy fodder for the anti-PC crowd. Fox then uses videos like this (of course, without showing the above video) to show that the criticism coming from the left is from the “usual suspects” of PC nutjobs.

Stop making the rest of us look bad. If they break out the white sheets and lynching supplies, then we can start breaking out those words. But until then, let’s attack substance and not resort to ad hominem.

Call him in for absolutely any reason — underhand real estate dealings for the library, jay-walking or whatever. Once he’s there, lock the door and throw away the key. There is ample evidence that this man is a dangerous criminal, one guilty of hundreds, if not thousands, of inane, immoral, illegal and treasonous deeds. All that remains is to incarcerate him.

No matter how many different parties you have you will never please everybody. This is why the party that can lie the best is the one that wins. There are many people that supported Obama that couldn’t tell you how many judges sit on the supreme court. Many for the first time because of color or how much they would get. Than there are the the ones with white guilt that in their minds makes them non racist by voting for a black man that clearly was not the right person for the job. This country has come to the point where everything must be politically correct, we must sacrifice integrity, morals, honor, and now security all in the name of affirmative action. The GOP needs to get back to basics, starting with honesty being the best policy. Than they need to educate the people on the fact that they do much better, and the country does better when they support themselves. “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link” and we wonder why the country is about to snap!!!

It’s the battle of the thesaurus gone awry (benjaminblue) vs. thinly-veiled racism (The Proctologist). Who will come out on top for today’s dumbest comment?

She doesn’t have an icicle’s chance in hell of winning, but the Republican candidate for the 5th district in Illinois wants to ruin her future political career before finishing the race. After Rahm Emmanuel accepted the position as Chief of Staff to President Obama, Rosanna Pulido won the Republican nomination for the special election to replace him.

And this is when the Internet kicks in and ruins Pulido’s fun. Posting under the name “chicagolady” on the Free Republic forums, Pulido had some pretty harsh words for Mexicans, gay people, and liberals. Here are some snip-its:

Like I tell any Liberal, “You can have my gun…..bullets first”

LOL!! YOU ARE SICK!! Face it, it’s better to be in a meat packing town than a fudge packing town.

A lot of those loans were made by Mexicans preying on Mexicans. Not white Americans preying on Mexicans. What is being exposed here is a diversion created by the Hispanics who want money at any cost and the corruption and culture they are bringing with them. They would sell swamp land in Florida to their own grandmother. I lived in Mexico for a year as a missionary. I was ripped off the worst by the Bible students. It is so cultural to rip people off they do not see that it is wrong. It’s culture.

In that district, it was always a race to see who could secure the Democratic nomination. Pulido always had no chance to win the election, but now this stuff will haunt her for the rest of her life. Of interesting note, is that Pulido is Mexican herself and is also a member of the Illinois Minutemen, a group dedicated to stopping illegal immigration in controversial ways.

Ryan Gosling plays a self-hating Jew in The Believer

I’d hate to be a politician. Think of all the crazy shit you’ve said in the past that would come back and screw you over later. Your facebook status, your myspace wall, your blog comments, and your Twitter tweets will follow you forever. It will be interesting to see how the election process changes in the next 40 years when presidential candidates have to answer for a lot of this kind of material. The American public may actually have to accept them as human beings that fuck up, instead of ideals in suits.

Former Mobile County (AL) Circuit Judge Herman Thomas was arrested Friday after being indicted by a grand jury for allegedly sexually abusing inmates. He is accused of 57 felony counts including ethics violations, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree sex abuse, first-and-second-degree extortion and first-degree sodomy. Thomas is out of policy custody on $287,500 bond.

The nature of the charges is bizarre. Thomas is accused of “paddling” inmates from the Mobile Metro Jail.

The judge's wingman?

Thomas’ attorney Bob Clark contends that Thomas is being unfairly targeted because he is black.

[This is a] high-tech lynching. It’s racism at its finest by the white folks at the courthouse. They talked about Herman being suspended from Judge Johnston’s courtroom, Joe Koolaid hanging out in Judge Johnston’s courtroom all the time. That’s where it’s coming from, people who’ve got 20 and 30 years for Herman. If you went over to that jail and said say something bad about that judge that sentenced you we’ll let you go, they’d talk.

Mobile Country District Attorney John Tyson Jr. dismissed all notions that the arrest was racially motivated. Tyson says that if Thomas is convicted, his past cases will have to be examined in case these behaviors affected his judgment.

We’re going to have to take that on a case-by-case basis. I suspect we’ll get what we have been getting in that regard. I think there have been a number of inquiries, but we’ll have to do it on a case-by-case basis.

Either we’ve got a serial spanker on our hands, or racism in Alabama. I don’t know which is more likely.